Paul Cope
Having started his career in the magic circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, before spending several years at esteemed firms DLA Piper and Addleshaw Goddard in Liverpool and Manchester, Paul Cope formed Cope & Co in 2009 with a vision to establish a modern thinking commercial law firm with a unique offering to its clients: high quality legal advice and services for fixed fees.
Having grown the firm both in number of employees and the quantity and quality of its clients whilst establishing Cope & Co as a real alternative to the larger law firms for local and national businesses, Paul’s vision is to grow the firm to provide a full range of commercial services to its clients, whilst still maintaining the relationships the firm has with those clients.
The firm is built around Paul’s desire to provide its clients with a high quality level of advice and service whilst taking a pragmatic and practical approach to the work we carry out.
Neil Lacey
Neil Lacey leads the firm’s Commercial Property practice having joined Cope & Co from DLA Piper in May 2011.
Neil qualified in 2003 joining Mace & Jones from where he moved to DLA Piper in 2005. Neil is experienced in all aspects of commercial property work including property development, acquisitions and disposals of freehold and leasehold interests, landlord and tenant matters, and property finance.
During his time at Mace & Jones and DLA Piper, Neil worked on a large variety of transactions for a range of clients, including large national and international investment funds as well as regional businesses of all sizes.
Neil also has specialist experience of the property aspects in Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring transactions, acting for insolvency practitioners on Administration and LPA Receivership appointments, in dealing with the wide ranging property issues the result from such procedures.
In addition to his unquestionable skill and knowledge in this specialist area of law, Neil also has a commercial and pragmatic approach to advising clients which fits in perfectly with the ethos of Cope & Co, where we always seek to give our clients the best advice in their particular situation, whilst developing close working relationships with those clients.